WnR it : A^ryr-. K^#*-, «M> -*4 HttU, onlghtj<mce ac i?i/Germcin bonders £ are over Load Tor the fifth night in succession.pThe latest jsi dispatch n tei is o[ the shrieking of air* raid sirens in the British capital at shortly after nine, London tiae. Then the sound o ahn* Li. e, ^.n i—aircraft batteries, the explosion of bombs, the dark sky lighted with the flash and flame of air raid and xr air battle. At this moment there is no indication that tonight’s bombing attack is anythin^, more than the ones previous - more of a demonstration than ^ctual zsxEtr destruction. Bombs dropped here and there in the outskirts - luU mostly a case of menace cmd warning, the Nazi xxz air force out to show London what it coUu.d do if mass bombing attack were ordered. This is one curious phase of the last few days of the war. Both Britain and Germany doing the same thing, staging demonstration*raids over their resp ctive capitals. British bombers over Berlin, doing some damage - but mostly as a threat. It is as If Berlin and Lon,on were snyl-^c edC^ °^er ^ language of air raids see what we coull do if we were to start in. *et, how soon will the menace of bombers over London and Berlin be turned into the real thing? That's a dread question. Toaay the British were remarking on the sh discomfort of London's nightly experience - millions people kept, in air raid shelters hour upon hour, spe almost the 'whole ni/ht there] Do the Nazis think that this may have an effect on London morale, on the British war spirit? V»hO'-^mf>ws^^''irh-nir^the^--efrbiWil-ft^ion9-^here**aTiny--be in thic—erst—o^1-ttrc--mod»?pn''b«tVl^? V’ho knows 'what strange effects may ensue,psychological effects? Today department stores in London were crowded v>ith buyers, peop e purchasing one particular line of DaEXKkxnx merchandise 0 ^ a beds, folding stools and rubber mattresses. Equipment for aemg Many Londoners complained of ^oreneso, crumped ii stiffness of the jo ants - from sitting on the concrete flo rs of the air­ raid shelters. Concrete can be mighty hard after an hour or two. The real destruction fro,a the sky is being rained, not on London and Berlin, but on the industrial sect! ns of Great Britain .nu Germany - the war industries. Today the British report that the Nazi xfciiib.xix air raids had slackened a bit, but the bombers v/ere still striking at the great industrial are s of the midlands; JLxplosive and incendiary bo ,bs, blowing things u. , starting fires. And the British are retaliating with sinilar fury against the factory areas of Germany, hitting xKk back at the Nazis whe e It hurrts most - at places where the war equipment is produced. It’s a competition in factory bombings - with the British strxmiJigAii.2x0 striking also at Italy. Rome today admitted that bombs from Britain damaged one of the great Italian automobile plants now turning out tanks. This angle of "he war evoked a protest from Switzerland today, tho Swiss complaining that British bombers raiding northern Italy are flying across Swiss territory Berlin denied the bombing of a town in Ireland with '.he clait^ that no Nazi planes wore anywhere near the i Coast. Berlin today subte*ts that British war planes ciivi l no Ox the Irish town — Bor the pur ose oB stirring up trouble between Dublin . nd Berlinl That sounds familiar* - xnx an old line or argument. ^ / L 0 UoJ-A Ouoe a^ain tonight the state of affairs in the Balkans looks jeri^ous indeed. Th r e are reports of trouble set ween ..ouaunia and Soviet Russia and between Roumania and Hungary - two different kinds of disturbance. In Bucharest today it was admitted that the rumors] of fighting alon^ the oovlet frontier were true. ] One Roumania spokesman said: "It seems that a ^dftle war has been s' going on in the North". The nort)^ - meaning the new frontier established after the IrOviets took Bessarabia frov*t the Roumanians ’e have been clashes for several days, with Red Army units making raids into Roumanian territory. IR9 - hundred^soluiers are said to have been billed. Numbers of the local population are ileeing, afraid that the Soviets are about to grab more Roumanian territory. In the crisis. Kins Carol's government is said to have Withdrawn its troops behind the boide. a v..ri u pi aces - to avoid the danger of large scale hostilities. The prosp ioect of a flare-up is magnified by reports 'hat Nazi Germany is concentrating large forces near the Romi/vN i a - a soviet Lord or, c*s muny as a million ^nd a half tro js . T;'ieref a nu - eason for such ponderous r precautions, save the Hi i.ler lear that tstalin will go on grabbing, and may have to be checked. On the side of Roumania and Hu .gary, one story describes clashes between the border patrols of those rival nations, another account tells of a sky incident - a Roumanian w r plane attacking a 4mx Hungarian craft of the air, the Hu garian plane forced to land. These incidents are the more dangerous, as Bucharest and Budapest seem to be getting nowhere in adjusting the xx claims that Hungary is making for Roumanian territory. There are increasing chances of trouble between those two capitals that sound something li^ce a rhymej-Bucharest and Budapest. FRENCH l PCRTS iju'J U‘ln:i :'hat unfortunate France has had enough 1 , without u^vin^ a new disturbance - on the subject oi sports . In tnia rve discover two famous names, Borotra .nid Carpentier. Remember Borotra, the b funding Wasque of tennis i ime? And Carpentier, the orchid man of France who battled against Jack Dempsey some twenty years ago. Borotra has been appointed Czar of French Sports, and hat issued an edict - that there shall be no more professional spurts in France, save for cycling. You know, those bicycle races so popular in France. All the rest of the sports are to be strictly amateur - says Borotra. There1 s plenty of opposition to this, and it is headed by Carpentier, the one time Orchid iian. Today in Paris lie Issued a manifesto denouncing the Borotra amateur policy, and proclaiuing the benefits of professionalism In sports. He's backed up by powerful interests, -nd ■ ..v.ly battle seems in prospect. This French sporting turmoil in today’s news stands gqniCH ■ por:?o - in jooJy relation to on ie incident of bitter irony related by the •" ° • *M*al Andre Enrols has a seriTs f 01 ar icleo luntiing ia Magazine, and tells aiournfully the military state or affairs last winter - before the blitzkrieg began. At that time the principal worry of the Allies v.atS that thjLr armies on the western front might be bored to death. "Prominent ^tople in Lonaon and Paris", writes .lauroIs, "stated a variety of new enterprises: reauinf matter for the armies, sports for the armies, art for the armies, lays for the armies. A chagrined woman was disturbed by this frivolity, "relates laurois. "She said that she was going to fou d a new agency - war for the armies. T She was right", he adds, "but such ideas were not popular." I Hollywood ^nnou.ices the production of a nev; fiLu, r-jl.!, dolly ulii feut»>»fcN» u. aethin^ ultra-special. >Something super-ultra British. More than a score of the highest rankin, British actor:: and actresses in Hollywood ***• to play in it, aef ,«nd “tfcnawt — free of charge ) ^ Now, that Is news. In f ct, it is - war ne.»s The new fiLu is to be in answer to criticism that h -3 been voiced over an Englanci, criticism Ox the num er 1 of British actors who have gone to Hollywood while ^r is raging around the shores of Britain. Recently, in the H-U^o of Commons there were remarks about Gracie fields, the Lancasterhsire Lass, and the amounts of money she has taken to the United dtates. also ih questions about Noel Coward’s stay in America. The British colony in Hollywood resents the , . „ i i | i~r~ r0r them, said the imputations. Today a spokesma * criticism emanated a.23m from what he described FILM - as - "irres^asltle, disgruntle perils in the Brit ish movio industry who have tried unsuccessfully to get Hollywood contracts". -l^ut the big reply v.i.l be .iiaae on the screen, a film feature shut" j 1 ii» glorify^ old England. The cast ^s released today will include such leading luminaries as Cary Grant, Vivien Lei^h, Charles Laughton, Gracie Field?, ^erle SturKB Oberon, Lawrence Olivier, etcetra, etcetra, -nd etcetra. And possibly - Charlie Chaplin, L\s wha-lS-dJf^^3?it^srr^ori?iT^ The idea is - theyT re in fiolj.yv.ooa, but they’ll do their bit. Tm' ‘? ' on the SU!B* Conscription BUI went on and on in tne S oil tcj tod:iy# ^ TT^-WTc Q^1 -.10 aiaiinistration leaders expect to bet the measure to a vote very soon uo>;, but still the speech•iiit.ixin^ Luiitinues* Lt was luade the more stritvlng today by one interesting bit of English prose, which w.,s rend by Senator.Johnson. r'The Senator \:as attacking the conocripti n as a menaoe to democrary, and he produced ..hat h said was army training manual v/hich was used from nineteen twenty-eight to nineteen thirty-two. In t 1 was a definition of Mu. ..uiTf' ’■democracy” and a nator Johnson read n j uefiwitii w its follows: Democracy: A government of the raasses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct1 expression^cSesults in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is commu iistic negating property rights. Attitude toward whether • t t -f-1 n .r governed by eassion, preju iice it be based upon deliberation or go\Lixi- ^ t CONSCRIPT IUN anarchy. ” Luch was the definition of democracy attributed to the army tra ining manual. In uirias were iiaiuediately made at the v ar department, where the ^following explanation was issuea*.^ Tne book in questiun^ said the war department, was an army yum hlet o:i citizenship which containea some objectionable matter. 5 Uiu v, .s recallea and copies confiscated. The stxxxx statements it contr ined were repudiated as unauthorised. That1s the official explanation of the curious definition hich figured in the Senate debate today. of democracy Wend el Y.illkie tod..y repudiated the support of Fcither Cou^Lii:.*- was it really the support of the radio ^riest? It aas pointed out to the candidate that Fatner Coughlin* s iiiagaziiio, social Justice, has coiae out in wUpport of the Republican ticket. In response to this, Wilikie stated: "I’m not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody’s race or religion or who is in support of any foreign, economic or Xis>: political philosophy in this country." Did this include Father Coughlin, Willkie was ax asked. He replied that he unoerstotxl Father CuuLhlio was opposed to certain persons because of their race This of course referred to charges of anti-semitism against the Detroit Priest. Mllklf^Tthat if these charges .ere true, he wasn’t interested in any Coughlin support, uidn't want it. This is was followed by a retort from Father Coughlin H*-} said that he had not come out in sup.-ort of Willkie had nothint' to do *ith the article printed in Social Justice, lie sal * oe tiadn’t made up his mind about the election, and added; "iaybe I’ll prefer to xei2?j£xxii keep silent.” He concluded that anyway he wasn’t anti-semitic but only against people who refused to condemn both the Nazis and coimauuists. *LXyg^ Ay: . 3:iyds circumatan^s, a volume whichJ^Mihe central i X in /a c v Lii.i case^fnd v.hich is also number one importance / / X x ^ in t/.ie vvo^/1 ol iiiRXixtM^ll^erature* Xt*s^^/rare fi^st 1 ollo^ciioion of Shalce^eare, a collector's item, the vali of/which is a paraded by fifty thousand dollars. it / , / / was liven to /n assistant United States District Attorney by a messenger ho brought it from somebop^ else. V.ho ya that somebody may/be is not revealed. The identity of the diidev of the ti^asured book is^eing kept a se£**et. The first folio of Shakespeare, a magnificent red morocco volume, was tne most precious item in the library at Williams College at .Villainstown, Massachusetts. It was stolen last February by the cleverest kind of crook. Today the story was reveled. The burglar visited Williams College, representing him elf as a professor, and was received with scholastic courtesies. Well, it is indeed a clever crook / who can get by as a Professor among the other professors. As i3H.n > A; viii — l supposedly a 1 arned x^hBix scholar, he was given cordial access to tne library. And he swiped the magnificent first folio of Shakespeare, ^nd substituted another book that looked like it. The police proceeded to do some detective ..ora and arrested four men in ussuixaixixz connection with the affair. They* re to bi put on trial. And now comes the v.ord that today the missing, first £i folio was turned over to an assistant United States District Attorney at Buffalo, this under conuition^ of blank secrecy - mure mystery. HORN xit: ^-i-n6ston> Ontario, Delbert Bradley owed his life today to the way the horn of his automobile was smacked when the crash Hmriy this morning in an isolated section, his car got uut of control, went off the road, and crashed into a culvert. Delbert wa^. knocked unconscious and badly cut, so seriously that he woulu have bled to death -- ■&J. for the automobile hornwr s jam^eu in such fashion /k A A that the electrical control v/us grounded, and this made the horn blast a,.ay. It just kept on blowing. It echoed across hill and dale. The pestilential noise awakened farmers, annoyed them. Finally they went to t-ke a look x I hbs and see what was causing th. t incessant kunx horn-blowing. 5 o they discovered the crash, and saved a ^iiO. 6 Ul v-0_ ,